AskCodi vs Devin

AskCodi

AskCodi is no longer the in-editor coding assistant it was first listed as: it now sells an autonomous agent service that scopes, builds and maintains apps with your sign-off at each step, plus an OpenAI-compatible model gateway billed from the same token balance. It suits founders and freelancers who want delegated, reviewable delivery with transparent token pricing; developers who want an assistant they steer line by line inside their editor should look at Cursor or GitHub Copilot instead.

Pros

• +Pricing is public and plain: each paid plan returns its full price as tokens at $1.25 per million
• +Free tier of 1 million tokens a month with no card, and work pauses at the cap instead of billing overage
• +Work is gated by a written scope and per-delivery sign-off, with run receipts showing checks passed and spend
• +One balance covers agent runs and gateway calls usable from Cline, Continue, Zed and similar tools

Cons

• −The 2026 pivot means many reviews and tutorials still describe the older coding assistant
• −Token use per agent job is hard to predict before running real work
• −Desktop app is early (version 0.0.86 seen) and has no Linux build yet

Devin

Devin is the agent to hand a whole ticket to and walk away from, and the $20 Pro tier makes that affordable to try for the first time. The quota is the catch: a long autonomous session can exhaust a plan quickly, and once it does you are paying API rates, so it suits teams that batch well-scoped tasks rather than developers who want a tireless pair programmer in the loop.

Pros

• +End-to-end autonomy: plans, codes, tests and opens the pull request from its own cloud machine
• +Fans one large task out across parallel agents and manages them itself
• +Native Slack, Linear, Jira and GitHub integration plus Desktop and CLI clients
• +Entry price dropped to $20 a month, far below the original enterprise-only positioning

Cons

• −Quotas are described only qualitatively ('light', 'generous'), so cost per task is hard to predict
• −Overage is billed at API pricing, which is where a runaway agent session gets expensive
• −Team tier adds a flat $80 a month on top of $40 per full user
• −Pages are heavily client-rendered; the terms live on cognition.com, not devin.ai

Is AskCodi cheaper than Devin?

On published entry prices, Devin starts lower — $20/mo against $29/mo for AskCodi. Entry price is the lowest paid plan as we last verified it; what each plan includes differs.

Does AskCodi or Devin have a free tier?

Both: AskCodi has a free tier, and Devin has a free tier.

Which has a public API, AskCodi or Devin?

Both ship a public API, so either can be built on; the fact table above shows the platforms each one runs on.